| | Well, I took the Strengths test again. Mostly because I was curious. I've taken it a couple times before and I always get Responsibility, Achiever, and Belief with the first two always being my first two (supposedly the strongest). The others vary (I've gotten Developer, Relator, Learner and Focus before). This time I again got Responsibility, Achiever, Belief and Relator but none of them were my first. This time I got Individualization for my #1. Weird! Ryan was just commenting yesterday how between the two of us, we've at some point gotten 14 of the 34 identified strengths from this assessment but have never gotten any of the same ones! Well I ruined that because Ryan got Individualization when he took it freshmen year at APU. We finally have a common strength. :) The description of Individualization reminds me some of Developer but it's interesting that Developer did not come up this time on my top 5. I think it's an amazing and well-designed tool and am always curious how our context and recent personal growth and development affect the outcome. Obviously, since the results are not completely new each time I've taken it, the test is dependable. But I am interested in connecting the ones that have varied (more specifically the change itself) to that particular season of my life.
It was fun to hear the students yesterday say their strengths and to discuss how they related to leadership and the trip we are going to take next month. It's a whole new language and some of them I could tell were "fading" after we had discussed it for a little while but I think that by the time our trip is over, they will each be able to see the benefit of the assessment and be familiar with the meanings. The test was difficult for most of them to take, since it uses adult-reading level vocabulary, but we helped reword things as best as we could. The questions are skipped if no answer has been given in 20 seconds, but I think that that helped the test be accurate for them. The ones they could respond to quickly were the ones they could understand and are therefore the most accurate of them. Since the test is designed to weight those more, I think their results are still dependable. I'm looking forward to seeing the kids use this tool in the future!
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